Sara Brandt is a Master of Architecture candidate that comes from a background in Psychology and Neuroscience. She aims to merge her passion for art, design, and psychology in order to design spaces that engage with their surrounding context and are informed by the ecological factors that shape the human experience. Through this form of architectural design, she hopes to create innovative, socially conscious, and community driven solutions in the built and natural environment. Prior to pursuing a career in architecture, Sara received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Spain from 2014-2015 where she worked on published psychiatric research at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital. She also spent two years working on published neuropsychological research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Columbia University Irving Medical Center. As an architectural designer she has worked as a designer and researcher with the NOW Institute, the urban research branch of Morphosis Architects. She has also worked on both commercial and residential projects with S9 Architecture and Bromley Caldari Architects.  Sara will graduate with a M.Arch with honors from the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in May 2022. She holds a Bachelor of the Arts in Psychology and a Spanish Minor from Skidmore College with Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude honors.